From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 22:01:17 GMT
Subject: Re: .git/info/refs
Message-ID: <45B928AD.50508@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v3b5yai6c.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes:
> 
>>>>> With new gitweb and new git it is not that expensive. It is now one call
>>>>> to git-for-each-ref per repository.
>>>> That IS hugely expensive.  On kernel.org, that is 24175 calls to git.
>>> Do you mean you have 24k _REPOSITORIES_ served by gitweb on
>>> kernel.org?
>> No, we currently have 250 repositories with a total of 24175 refs.
> 
> Then that would mean 250 calls to git-for-each-ref, wouldn't it?
> 

Well, I think it was Johannes that said once for each ref.  But either 
which way, it's a totally unacceptable load with resulting unacceptable 
latency.

	-hpa